Describe one way your body maintains homeostasis. Put page 1 of your homework packet out on your desk!
Agenda Feedback Mechanisms Notes (10 min) Feedback Loops Video (15 min) Homeostasis Review Practice (15 min) Homeostasis Children’s Book (50 min)
How does your body actually maintain homeostasis Review: What is homeostasis?
Feedback Mechanisms Negative Feedback Mechanisms – The stimulus creates a response and then that response is stopped Positive Feedback Mechanisms – The stimulus creates a response and then that response keeps going
Negative Feedback Mechanisms Example
Negative Feedback Mechanism Example When you eat your blood sugar (glucose) levels increase This causes your pancreas to release insulin to absorb the extra blood glucose After blood sugar drops back to normal, insulin is not made anymore
Checkpoint Define ‘Negative Feedback Mechanism’ in your own words
Regulating Blood Sugar
Positive Feedback Mechanisms Example During childbirth, a hormone called oxytocin is released Oxytocin causes the uterus to contract As oxytocin levels increase, your brain signals to release even more oxytocin so your uterus contracts even more…
Oxytocin
Video
Exit Ticket Why would negative feedback mechanisms be more common in our bodies than positive feedback mechanisms?